China will start cloning cattle to meet rising beef demands

A commercial animal cloning center is currently being built in China to help meet the country’s rapidly rising beef demands. According to a press release by BoyaLife, a global leading technology company, the plant will be located in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin in a government sponsored business development park known as the Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Area. The $31 million investment is expected to begin operations in the first half of 2016. The plant will start by producing 100,000 cattle embryos per year and eventually work its way up to one million. It will be the largest cloning facility in the world, complete with a gene storage area and a museum. Read more at Fortune…